Lokkij's Blog

I made another small puzzle game

It's a set of short logic puzzles, and you can play it here.

I made it for the GMTK game jam. I'll be honest, I don't love the GMTK game jam; I don't usually vibe with the themes, and it's two orders of magnitude larger than my preferred size. At the same time, its size ensures that, every year, some subset of my nerd friends is participating - and the best game jams are the ones you do with friends.

My strategy going in was to make the core of a game on Friday, and then leave the rest of the weekend open for refinement and extra features for as long as I felt motivated. This is exactly how it went down: I spent Friday hanging out with a friend who was also participating and building the core of my game. Then on Saturday and Sunday I wasn't really feeling it, so I mainly just put on the final touches (main menu, audio) and published it. I'm pretty pleased about that process! It was a low-investment way to participate while leaving room for more effort if I felt like it.

Note that apparently there's a bug in the game that means that sometimes a puzzle will count the correct answer as wrong. I'll track it down at some point, but in the meantime reloading should resolve the issue.